Deadline: October 31st, 2025
Payment: .02¢ per word
Theme: Tiny Terrors is our short fiction program for when a novel just won’t do. Just a short shocking scream to keep you awake at night …
Tiny Terrors is our short fiction program for when a novel just won’t do. Just a short shocking scream to keep you awake at night …
Graveside Press is again looking for submissions for our Tiny Terrors short fiction program.
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Deadline: May 29th, 2025
Payment: $20 CAD
Theme: Diverse horror, showcasing short stories, poetry, and essays written by queer, neurodiverse, BIPOC, female, and disabled writers.
Thank you for your interest in submitting your work to (s)crawl magazine.
We are a Canadian-based magazine that publishes the best in diverse horror, showcasing short stories, poetry, and essays written by queer, neurodiverse, BIPOC, female, and disabled writers.
We accept submissions globally, however we currently only publish works in English. We welcome both seasoned and emerging writers to submit.
Please review our submission guidelines carefully before submitting your work.
Art by Anwen O’Driscoll
Deadline: August 31st, 2025
Payment: $0.08 CAD per word
Theme: Fantasy short stories
OTHER: the 2025 fantasy short story anthology (Book 2 of the Other Anthology series)
We are seeking short stories by international writers. The story can be visually evocative or character/narrative focused as long as it leaves the reader thinking about the story long after closing the book. We don’t want a lesson, we want an experience that makes us come alive.
Deadline: August 31st, 2025
Payment: $15
Theme: Road trip terror
Are you brave enough to take a ride on the Hellbound Highway? HellBound Books is seeking short horror stories for an anthology on the theme of bad trips, which will be curated and edited by the double-trouble partnership of veteran horror writers Jane Nightshade and Ann O’Mara Heyward. We want road trips, sure, but also airplane journeys, ship crossings, railroad passages, heck even cattle drives–as long as it’s a trip and it’s B-A-D.
What if a family like the Griswolds from National Lampoon’s Vacation were zombies? What if a weary business traveler waits for the red-eye in an airport that is literally a portal to hell? What if the night manager of the local Greyhound bus station was a vampire who feeds off of the poor and desperate? What if a crook on the lam checks into a cheap motel and discovers that the usual cockroaches are mutants with deadly powers? What if someone stopped at a cafe in the middle of nowhere, and slowly realized that they were the special on next day’s menu?
These are the types of scenarios we are looking for, so let your creepiest imaginings run wild. Scary horror, psychological horror, or comedy horror are all welcome–it just has to be GOOD.
Deadline: May 31st, 2025
Payment: $0.08 /word
Theme: Fantasy, science-fiction, and horror short stories that embrace punk and queer rage.
edited by
C.L. McCartney, Trip Galey & Robert Berg
We’re seeking fantasy, science-fiction, and horror short stories that embrace punk and queer rage.
There’s a glass ceiling in SFF representation, and we want you to throw a brick through it. Bring us the coven that burned Salem and your roaring bear-serkers. We want gangs of acid-wash werewolves, furious bipyromancers, flesh-eating femmes, and vengeant celestial bois—a cast of the downtrodden who make ruins of their oppressors.
Wrath lies at the heart of queer liberation—it can be a spur to action and the only righteous response to a world that would prefer we didn’t exist. So crash mainframes, collapse empires, and break normativity.
Pride month is over. It’s time for—
Wrath Month
Payment: 70% of your royalties come to you
Themes: horror (all sub-genres including extreme/splatterpunk), romance, science fiction, erotica, poetry, young adult fiction, and fully illustrated children’s books
At Baynam Books, we understand the craving for adventure, excitement, and thrills that our readers seek. Yearning to escape the mundane and delve into worlds teeming with mystery and intrigue.
Whether you have a novelette, novella, a gripping novel, or a collection of short stories, we’re eager to take a look.
We welcome works across various genres, including horror (all sub-genres including extreme/splatterpunk), romance, science fiction, erotica, poetry, young adult fiction, and fully illustrated children’s books.
Whether your story sparks love, nightmares, adventure, passion, or discovery, we’re excited to explore its depths.
Deadline: June 1st, 2025
Payment: AU 1c/word
Theme: What happens to a person after a major transformation
Submissions open until 1st June 2025
The Morning After is an anthology about what happens after a sudden transformation. This could be an individual person transforming into something new or a mass change that effects humanity as a whole. How does this person or society react to no longer being human?
As an editor, I am keen to see how people react in this unique situation. Focus on struggles and adaptation to new forms are highly encouraged.
Despite the name of the anthology, the story does not need to begin with waking up in this new reality – but it should start shortly after the transformation has taken place.
Deadline: June 30th, 2025
Payment: $5
Theme: Plagues, pandemics, original takes on zombies, outbreaks, and everything related!
The HellBound Books team felt enough time has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic to warrant an appropriately themed anthology. We are looking for horrific tales of diseases ravaging mankind, viruses, bacteria, and fungal spores infecting and threatening to eradicate all of humanity – and, yes, we would love to see your terrifying, unique takes on the zombie trope!
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